Cloudsto AllWinner A20 Android 4.2 mini PC and Set-top Boxes

AllWinner A20 is a dual core Cortex A7 processor destined to provide an easy pin-to-pin compatible upgrade for AllWinner A10 devices, and the first devices start to appear on the market with several Cloudsto offerings running the latest Android 4.2 Jelly Bean:

The Media PC PRO DRIVESTOCK is the star of the show, and just looks like an upgraded version of the Mele A1000/A2000 set-top box powered by AllWinner A10. Cloudsto is based in the UK, so prices include VAT, and the usual European markup, so hopefully, it will be possible to get this device for around $100 from China.

The device comes with a remote control, a power supply (100-240V), an AV-RCA cable, and an English user’s manual. It can be pre-ordered now for delivery in mid-march.

Contrary to the Mele A1000, source code is not yet available, but once (if?) it becomes available, I’m pretty sure linux-sunxi community will be all over it (and/or other A20 devices) to provide Linux support to A20 SoC, unless they got fed-up with AllWinner lack of documentation and compliance with the GPL… [Update: It turns out that A20 and A31 code is already leaked. It’s based on linux 3.3, but linux-sunxi guys have already started to clean it, and will start integrating it into 3.4 and mainline once they get some hardware to play with. Thanks to Alejandro Mery (amery) for the correction]

1.after a couple of months -compared to others- they decided to release a dual core…
2.if they are lucky enough there will be a few to buy them…
3.the ones that already bought for them I don’t believe that they will return…
4.the (free source) developers no longer believe them,how could they actually…
5.bad luck Allwinner…you had the pottential but you followed the wrong strategy…

A bit on the expensive side for a dual core A7. Let’s not forget the RK3066 sticks can be bought for as low as 43$ with free shipping. Even if you do include the VAT and all that it still doesn’t add up.
Also the RK3066 is a dual core A9 which is a bit better than A7 and has a quad Mali while this has a dual. Source code is also available for RK3066 while for this there’s none.

@Marius
Finally, I did not follow linux-sunxi mailing list closely enough (too many emails over there), and they already have source code for both A20 and A31.
The price is not really competitive for the stick, but AllWinner said A20 should cost about the same as A10, so we may have to wait for the Chinese sell it to find the real market price.
AFAIK there’s so complete solution like the one above (3 video output, SATA support, SPDIF based on Rockchip), so it could be interesting to some people.

cnxsoft :@Marius
Finally, I did not follow linux-sunxi mailing list closely enough (too many emails over there), and they already have source code for both A20 and A31.
The price is not really competitive for the stick, but AllWinner said A20 should cost about the same as A10, so we may have to wait for the Chinese sell it to find the real market price.
AFAIK there’s so complete solution like the one above (3 video output, SATA support, SPDIF based on Rockchip), so it could be interesting to some people.
By the way, I’ve found a Rockchip RK3066 mini PC for $39 inc. shipping this morning: http://dx.com/p/reko-mk803-android-4-0-4-google-tv-player-w-wi-fi-hdmi-tf-1gb-ram-4gb-rom-black-191193. Should I write a post about that?

I was referring to the stick, that one doesn’t really makes sense. The media PC is OK if you need the features but I don’t really like the hard drive mount.
I didn’t know they have the sources already, that’s cool then. I’m working on an Allwinner tablet based on A10 right now and it’s really nice. I especially like their system with the config in a separate file, makes it much easier when you don’t have the sources for that device which unfortunately is often the case with the Chinese.
By the way I found a few of your articles here useful so thanks.

@Marius
“A bit on the expensive side for a dual core A7. Let’s not forget the RK3066 sticks can be bought for as low as 43$ with free shipping. Even if you do include the VAT and all that it still doesn’t add up.”

i think the price difference between these CPUs might not be larger than 5-6$.
as i imagine the ports (sata, 4 USBs, ethernet, vga, Bluetooth) take the largest part of the price.

Whats about the power of the Allwinner A20.
Anyone knows is it faster or slower as an MK802III with RK3066 ?
I want a device like this as an mini PC, so i must have VGA out (no HDMI, no DVI)
Can i use 1680×1050 with this ?
I there a way to use Linux like Picuntu / Ubuntu ?